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Apr 25, 2021Liked by Simone Wong

Have you heard about the French Deep Time project? It is really interesting. A group of 15 volunteers have just re-emerged after spending 40 days in a cave to study links between the brain and time. https://deeptime.fr/en/

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Apr 11, 2021Liked by Simone Wong

For me in my 6Os, getting older is not about running out of time but feeling that time “moves” at a different, much faster, speed. I was wondering why and came up with this analogy: when you have a narrow range of data to plot on a graph, the axis scales can be set so that each increment is relatively small. However, when you have more data over a wider range, the scale has to be adjusted accordingly and each increment is now much greater. It allows to keep a sense of the overall trend but at the cost of details. I think our brain has similar limitations in terms of memory storage. Over a longer period of time, it has to adjust its scale, leaving out “details” , and, by doing so, it gives us a feeling of time moving faster.

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'Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.

And you are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.

No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.'

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